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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races. [1] It is based on his observations of various classrooms in the public school systems of East St. Louis , Chicago , New York City , Camden , Cincinnati , and ...
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) A finalist for the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award and awarded The New England Book Award. Reprint ISBN 0-060-97499-0 Bookfinder collected reviews. Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995) Reprint ISBN 0-060-97697-7 Review and appreciation by ...
In the first chapter of this text, Kozol examines the current state of segregation within the urban school system. He begins with a discussion on the irony stated in the above quote: schools named after leaders of the integration struggle are some of the most segregated schools, such as the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington (95% minority) or a school named after Rosa ...
Inequity aversion (IA) is the preference for fairness and resistance to incidental inequalities. [1] The social sciences that study inequity aversion include sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, and ethology. Researchers on inequity aversion aim to explain behaviors that are not purely driven by self-interests but fairness ...
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[including] his forceful claim that 'every sentiment has a history.'" [4] The affective aspects of the colonial and imperial state is a topic throughout Stoler’s work, from Dutch and French colonialism in Indonesia and Vietnam, to her recent work on Palestine and the U.S., showing how affects such as fear and disregard shape and entrench ...
Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and US empire. [1] She works on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race, sex, gender, and US imperialism.
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]